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All this time and energy wasted on chatbots, cancer research, and what have you. What we need is a universal robotic liver, so that we can all stay drunk all the time with no consequences.
Cheers - I’ll drink to that!
Prost!
Alcohol also increases your blood pressure, and that has nothing to do with the liver. Still wouldn’t be a good idea to be drunk all the time.
No, there are no consequences. I specifically requested it.
Well seeing as Nobody asked for it, I guess we don’t have to do anything
Alcohol is so much work to produce, with many deleterious effects on other parts of your physiology. Cut out the middle man and get a droud implanted. The only extra thing you’ll need for the rest of your life is few handfuls of AA batteries.
Yeah! Screw insulin pumps, we need glutathione pumps.
I only drink a couple times per year. I’m typically pretty introverted and quiet, but once I’ve had alcohol, people keep telling me that I’m so friendly and fun and how they’d like to have some drinks with me again.
Dangerous.
Thankfully, I hate how bloated and disgusting I feel when I drink, otherwise I’d probably be an alcoholic like my mom, who died of alcohol poisoning after being the life of the party for years until it got so bad she wasn’t fun anymore.
Shit is bleak out there, no one gives a shit if you have a drinking problem because it’s so normalized. Then when you need help and are pushing everyone away, there’s barely any support unless you have money. And AA programs have their own issues.
I’ve had people bring up my completely legal, never-abused, responsibly used, doctor-prescribed medication out of “concern”, while my then-partner would down a couple 40s before noon and no one would fucking bat an eye.
Shit’s fucked. Alcoholism is so normalized and socially accepted that folks just treat it like a fun quirk.
My family has a history of the bad kind of alcoholism, so I didn’t even try alcohol until my mid-twenties.
I was very introverted at the time, and I have to admit, I loved the person I was when I was drunk.Fortunately for me, I had the willpower and the awareness to realize that just because I liked it didn’t mean I needed more. For about 10 years, I drank socially, in moderation, maybe about once a month on average.
I’ll admit it did get a bit dicey in University, where I had a drink most days with my friends after class, but I very quickly dropped that habit after graduating.
Not that it’s relevant (is any of this story?), but I recently discovered I have an issue with my liver - presumably not alcohol related - and as a precaution I’ve just stopped drinking entirely. Fortunately I’m a lot more “extroverted” these days, but I’ll admit I do miss it sometimes.
Mine has a history of un-fun alcoholism, as well. Apparently it was used to self-medicate our other family history of depression. 🎉
I’d drink more if I had folks to go out with, but I’ve cut off a lotta people in the last few years.
It seems that social pressure to drink kind of doesn’t go away as you age, huh?
Honestly, since weed was legalized here, my entire social group pretty much entirely ditched alcohol in favor of cannabis. Definitely makes it easier for me to not feel pressured to drink, thankfully.
Seems good and probably has zero bad sides to it, go for it. 👍
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Glad to hear you’re feeling better now. That’s one habit that can gradually sneak up on you over time.
I started doing 1 or 2 drinks pretty much every evening during the pandemic, and more during the weekend, and much more when going out. I didn’t really see any issue at all, but very gradually I became sadder, slower, less motivated.
Of course I didn’t notice that until I’d stopped for a few weeks. Now I can’t think of a single reason to drink. At this point in my life, it takes more than it gives.
I feel like it’s probably always been that case, but I doubt I would have thought so as a young man.
The key is to never get too drunk. Never have more than slightly less than 2 drinks.
The key is to never get not drunk
With enough practice you probably trick your brain and be extraverted (to some extent) without alcohol. Or at least that’s something I tell myself.
My biggest progress is not attending language lesson while being after a beer or two 😁.
Man wait till you meet Charlie
Big white horse? That guy?
Welcotm to the club!
Hm, I don’t remember posting this… Probably cuz of all the confidence and extroversion.
Another Round, 2020 film with Mads Mikkelsen. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/
I only really like myself and how I behave when I’m drunk, I’m much more outgoing and confident, not to mention it just makes me feel good. I feel like if I had less self control, I could very easily become addicted, but as it is I don’t drink that often, and when I do drink I don’t drink much.
